Kim

“This a clear warning to the person who causes the abuse, you are causing harm to your children even if you aren't hitting them.  Your relationship with them will be forever scarred. The fear and heartbreak that happens over and over can severely scar a child.”
― Kelly Walk Hines, Memoirs of an Invisible Child

“People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.”
― Jonah Lehrer

“it deeply important to accept that we are not the masters of this place. we are her visitors. and like guests let’s enjoy this place like a garden. let us treat it with a gentle hand. so the ones after us can experience it too. let’s find our own sun. grow our own flowers. the universe delivered us with the light and the seeds. we might not hear it at times but the music is always on. it just needs to be turned louder. for as long as there is breath in our lungs—we must keep dancing.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Surely,” thought I, “we mortals who dwell in pain and sorrow”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Complete Novels